Stories Behind Your User Names & Avatar Pictures.

[Carol the Dabbler]

For the education of everyone who's not from around there, just how far apart / close together are the three of you?

 

[Caya]

Not far at all - Vienna's not quite in the middle, but close enough (so I guess that'd make me the host); Vienna/Budapest is maybe 200km, Vienna/Prague about 250km by my guesstimates (please don't ask me about miles ). The borders have become pretty nonexistent due to the EU, which is good because Austria's so small that you can't travel more than a couple hundred km max before hitting some border .

 

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Just off the top of my head, 200 km is about 130 miles, and 250 would be maybe 160.  So if you lived in Indianapolis, the others might live in Chicago and Louisville.  That really is close!

 

For a while, there was a forum member who apparently lived within an hour's drive from me, but she hasn't been on lately (*sigh*).  I think bborchar might be the closest now, something like three or four hundred miles away.

 

[SH/LotR/Zelda Fan]

I believe that AFAIK (and if I remember correctly, the mobile version of the forum doesn't have very good profiles) Alice is the closest to me (being in Oxford...did I remember right...?), about...actually, I have no idea...*searches it up* well Google Maps gives me 77 miles, so I'll just trust that . So yeah (if I remembered her location correctly) really close! But it'll be so hard to sneak out for a day and meet for 1.5 hours persuade my mum to let me.

[Earendil]

Caya is right: Vienna is about in the middle. The approx. distance between Budapest and Vienna in a straight line is 134 miles, Vienna and Prague is 156 miles. 

 

 

I've been to Vienna quite often, I really like the city and feel myself at home, maybe because our common history (see Austro-Hungarian Empire). The old buildings are built in the same style as in Budapest. 

I haven't been to Prague yet, but I'm planning to go next year. All of my friends have raved about it, it should be a really nice place.

 

Carol, I think the distances in Europe are really small comparing to the States or other huge countries. I always giggle when I remember what my Brazilian friend said when I asked her whether she lived close to the Amazonas. "Yes, we live very close, it's only 3 days by coach." 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Thanks for the cool map, Earendil!  As I said on another thread recently, geography never was my strong suit.

 

It's neat how close you all are, even though you're in three different countries.  Fox and I (for example) live in the same country, but we're about a thousand miles apart, and anyone on the west coast would be about two thousand miles in the other direction.

 

[ToniLianne]

I'm one of those boring people that uses my actual name on forums, because I can't think of anything interesting or original and don't really have a nickname, so yeah my user name is my first and middle name combined. My avatar is a photo I over excited took from a coach window on Baker Street (don't know why I was so excited, it wasn't the first time I had been to Baker Street, but hey Sherlock!) it isn't very clear because the damn coach kept moving but I thought it would be fitting for this particular forum

[Carol the Dabbler]

I use my real name too, makes it easier to remember!

 

I like your avatar.  The overall impression is sort of abstract, but then it turns out to be Baker Street!

 

[ToniLianne]

Very true

 

getting that photo was actually quite funny, it took me about 5 minutes to realise we were actually on Baker Street, and then myself and Liselle who was with me spent the entire journey along Baker Street trying to get a clear picture!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Everybody wants a photo of the Baker Street sign, I think.  But it sure helps if you're not stuck on a bus!

 

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

 That was true for me in Israel too. We were on the road when our tour guide just kind of looks out the bus window and says. "Oh yes, and there are the Horns of Hattin. And it's like, What and we're not going to stop? One of the most historical sites in all of Israel. I was a bit bummed.

[T.o.b.y]

I joined right after re-reading The Sign of Four and I really wanted to "be" Toby, the old dog who tries so hard to find the right track for Holmes and Watson, messes up and leads them not to what they were looking for but to an epic laugh. However, "Toby" was already taken, so I decided I'd just turn it into an acronym à la H.O.U.N.D, only less sinister. Haven't figured out what it's supposed to stand for. Open to suggestions...

[Carol the Dabbler]

Thanks -- I've been really curious!  Well, there's a chain of frozen-yogurt shops over here called TCBY, which stands for The Country's Best Yogurt, so maybe you could be The Original Best Yogurt (though that's hardly Holmesian).

 

Congratulations on devising a very intriguing avatar.  I have absolutely no idea what it's supposed to be.  Care to comment on it?

 

[T.o.b.y]

Oh. Did something go wrong with the picture? It's just an old dog asleep - Toby after his job is done.

[Carol the Dabbler]

The forum software cropped it a bit severely.  I had a look at your profile page, where more of the photo shows ...

 

 

... and now I can also "see" the version that shows up on your posts.  That's nice!

 

[Karie]

Hi all! My username is actually just my first name (I'm horrible at coming up with clever screen names, and I can't ever remember them when I sign in, anyway). 

 

Since I have spent my whole life having the pronunciation mangled, I'll go ahead and tell you that it's pronounced just like "Carrie".  It seems easy, I know, but you'd be surprised how many times I was called "Kah-ree", "Car-ee", "Carlee", or even "Karen".  It's just a little bit different spelling my parents came up with because they wanted to combine the names of two of my grandmothers, Carolyn and Carrie, and a great grandmother from Germany, Katerina (called "Katie"). 

 

So, yeah, probably more genealogy than you wanted to know, but there you go! 

 

My avatar is just one of my favorite little moments from the series. I love the hat, and how taken aback Sherlock is by the fact that people always want to see him in it. And I love John's little indulgent smile in that scene when Sherlock obligingly puts it on, because I think Sherlock is deep down sort of touched by the positive attention, and John (because he's John) knows that Sherlock is preening a little bit under the grousing.  Just a sweet, endearing little moment that I always rewind and watch again when I'm watching the episode, because it makes my heart swell up like the Grinch at Christmas.  

[Carol the Dabbler]

Welcome from a fellow real-name user!  I fully agree, it sure saves confusion.  (And the only problem I've had with your name is that I misread it as "Katie" a time or two.)

 

I love that scene too!

 

[Karie]

Haha, well "Katie" is a lot closer than some people get! I still can't figure out how one of my college professors kept mistaking it for "Karen". My full name contains 18 letters and not a single one of them is an "n"! 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Maybe your professor assumed Karie was short for Karen, and didn't feel comfortable calling you by your nickname -- ?

 

[SherlockBatman]

I'm one of those boring people that uses my actual name on forums, because I can't think of anything interesting or original

 

Yeah, I'm the same.

[Mr. Holmes]

 

I'm one of those boring people that uses my actual name on forums, because I can't think of anything interesting or original

 

Yeah, I'm the same.

 

 

Your name is actually SherlockBatman? 

[Slithytove]

I chose my username because I have the poetry CD "Words For You - The Next Chapter", on which Benedict reads 3 poems. His voice is so beautiful that I have to admit I actually groaned when I listened the first time! Anyway, he reads "Kubla Khan", "Ode To A Nightingale" and "Jabberwocky", and there is something about the way he says "slithy toves"...

[Carol the Dabbler]

Mr. Cumberbatch reads "Jabberwocky"?  That amuses me, because the first time I heard his name, all I could think of was "Bandersnatch" (used in the stanza following "slithy toves").

 

[Riddle]

My username is just a from another of my obsessions. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan and Tom Riddle is one of my favourite characters. I have an old username that I've used since the mid-90s and just fancied a change, particularly as the name has since been used for other things than where I got it from and now suggests that I'm a manga fan. I get people asking me stuff about manga and have to explain that I have no idea what they're talking about and it's actually a 'Red Dwarf' reference, but of course they're too young to know it.

So change of username, not much thought went into it to be honest, I hate trying to come up with something clever and original so I just nicked a name from another of my 'fandoms' (I hate that word, I shall stop using it).

 

My avatar, again, not much thought gone into it.... obviously :/

[aely]

There are more than a couple of Red Dwarf fans on here...